“Darknet Market Archives (2013^–₂2015)”, Gwern2013-12-01 (Internet archiving, R, DNM Archives, Hydra DNM; backlinks; similar)⁠:

Mirrors of ~89 Tor-Bitcoin darknet markets & forums 2011^–₄2015, and related material.

Dark Net Markets (DNM) are online markets typically hosted as Tor hidden services providing escrow services between buyers & sellers transacting in Bitcoin or other cryptocoins, usually for drugs or other illegal/regulated goods; the most famous DNM was Silk Road 1, which pioneered the business model in 2011_13ya.

From between 2013^–₂2015, I scraped/mirrored on a weekly or daily basis all existing English-language DNMs as part of my research into their usage, lifetimes/characteristics, & legal riskiness; these scrapes covered vendor pages, feedback, images, etc. In addition, I made or obtained copies of as many other datasets & documents related to the DNMs as I could.

This uniquely comprehensive collection is now publicly released as a 50GB (~1.6TB uncompressed) collection covering 89 DNMs & 37+ related forums, representing <4,438 mirrors, and is available for any research.

This page documents the download, contents, interpretation, and technical methods behind the scrapes.

• Download
• Research
  • Possible Uses
  • Works Using This Dataset
  • Citing
  • Donations
• Contents
  • Overall Coverage
  • Interpreting & Analyzing
  • Individual Archives
    • Aldridge & Décary-Hetu SR1
    • AlphaBay2017 (McKenna & Goode)
    • DNStats
    • Grams
    • Kilos
    • Information Leaks
      • Diabolus/Crypto Market
      • Simply Bear
      • TheRealDeal
    • Modafinil
    • Pedofunding
    • Silk Road 1 (SR1)
      • SR1F
    • SR2
      • SR2Doug
  • Copyright
  • Previous Releases
  • Verification
• How To Crawl Markets
  • Crawler Wishlist
• Other Datasets
• External Links

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